A critical look at the Congressional impasse over funding $12 billion for Child Tax Credit expansion amid the approval of a colossal $858 billion military budget. Source Views: 0
Posts Tagged ‘Poverty’
Congressional stalemate: $858 billion for military, yet $12 billion child poverty aid stalled
Gig Work Wages In U.S. Are So Bad They’re a Human Rights Issue, U.N. Poverty Expert Says
A United Nations poverty and human rights expert has sent letters to Amazon, DoorDash, and Walmart, demanding they address allegations that their wages are so low that they trap workers in poverty. Olivier De Schutter, the UN special rapporteur on extreme poverty, also sent a letter to the U.S. government, requesting a response to allegations […]
Poverty in America on the rise in 2022 based on Census Bureau data
While Supplemental Poverty Measures (SPM) showed sharp increases, childhood poverty more than doubled in 2022. Source Views: 0
An Engineered Food and Poverty Crisis to Secure Continued U.S. Dominance
An Engineered Food and Poverty Crisis to Secure Continued U.S. Dominance By Colin TodhunterGlobal Research, July 15, 2023 First published on August 24, 2022***In March 2022, UN Secretary-General [url=https://unric.org/en/invasion-of-ukraine-disaster-for-millions-worldwide/#:~:text=He said 45 African and,of the global food system.]Antonio Guterres warned[/url] of a “hurricane of hunger and a meltdown of the global food system” in the wake of the crisis in Ukraine. Guterres […]
Southern Poverty Law Center Classifies Everyone Not Currently Wearing A Pride Shirt As A Hate Group
U.S. — The Southern Poverty Law Center has announced the addition of a dangerous new group to its list of hate groups: everyone who is not at this moment wearing a pride shirt. “This is the largest and most despicable hate group we’ve seen yet,” said Senior Staff Attorney Will Sagwell. “As far as we […]
NY Times: U.S. Imports Poverty as Young Migrants Make Up 44% of Poor Children
The United States, through mass illegal and legal immigration, is importing generations of poverty as the children of immigrants now account for 4-in-9 of all poor children living in the nation, the New York Times reveals. Source Views: 0
The Bernie Sanders 10-Step Plan For Ending Poverty
Hey folks, Bernie Sanders here! I am once again asking for your support in eradicating systemic poverty from the face of the earth. America can do it, but we won’t because America is immoral and Elon Musk has all the money. Horrible! I have a simple ten-step plan that is foolproof — and I should […]
Actor Idris Elba Decries ‘Unjust’ Poverty After Jetting to Davos from Gucci Fashion Show
British actor Idris Elba used the elite, champagne-soaked world of canapes and billionaires that is the World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting in Davos to decry global food poverty and “the unjustness of half the world eating and half the world Source Views: 0
1942 NSDAP Exhibition: The ‘jewish’ Soviet Paradise – Lies, Terror, Poverty and Mass Murder
The jews exterminated the best elements to make themselves the absolute rulers of an area from which they hoped to establish world domination. According to the GPU’s figures, nearly two million people were executed during the years 1917 to 1921. A direct result of the revolution was the terrible famine that demanded 19 million victims […]
25% of homes in Israel live in poverty, Arabs hit worst
About 27.8 per cent of Israeli households – 2,627,000 Israelis – live in poverty, a report published by Latet NGO revealed yesterday. Latet, which is Israel's largest anti-poverty NGO, found that at least 1,176,000 of the poor are children, adding that a total of 830,000 households are reported to be in economic distress – 131,000 […]
SYRIZA: Mitsotakis is plunging Greeks into poverty
Opposition SYRIZA-Progressive Alliance said in an announcement on Thursday that Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis “is plunging Greek society into poverty”. “There has even been an appearance of anti-theft devices on baby formula in supermarkets. Mr. Mitsotakis is also sinking democracy into a murky landscape of phone tappings. He has set up a deep state of… […]
Greek NGO warns worsening food, energy poverty amid rocketing prices
The report shows that 64 per cent of Greek households cut down on other needs and 36 per cent cut down on some of their basic needs in order to manage amid the energy crisis. ATHENS, Oct. 24 The rising cost of energy has placed a heavy burden on many Greeks, with every other household… […]
FREEZE ‘TIL YOU’RE BROKE: Millions of Brits face energy poverty this winter due to UK government’s price cap increase
(Natural News) Starting October 1, the government-imposed cap on energy bills in the United Kingdom will increase from £1,971 ($2,330) at present to £3,549 ($4,189). This change by Ofgem, the UK’s energy regulator, will send millions of British households into energy poverty, experts warn. (Related: Looks like dismantling fossil fuel energy infrastructure was not such […]
The UK Price Cap Has Plunged Millions Into Energy Poverty
With millions in Britain now facing energy poverty, the calls for a replacement of the price cap with some other system are only growing louder. Views: 0
Crushing poverty in Gaza pushes some children into the labor market
Every morning, Wesam Al-Louh wakes her two children, 12-year-old Muhammad and 11-year-old Rami, to have breakfast before leaving the house for work. The children dress themselves hurriedly in their well-worn work clothes, stained with tire lubricant. It is now summer break, and both brothers work full-time at two different car tire repair shops, and have […]
Crushing poverty in Gaza pushes some children into the labor market
Every morning, Wesam Al-Louh wakes her two children, 12-year-old Muhammad and 11-year-old Rami, to have breakfast before leaving the house for work. The children dress themselves hurriedly in their well-worn work clothes, stained with tire lubricant. It is now summer break, and both brothers work full-time at two different car tire repair shops, and have […]
Crushing poverty in Gaza pushes some children into the labor market
Every morning, Wesam Al-Louh wakes her two children, 12-year-old Muhammad and 11-year-old Rami, to have breakfast before leaving the house for work. The children dress themselves hurriedly in their well-worn work clothes, stained with tire lubricant. It is now summer break, and both brothers work full-time at two different car tire repair shops, and have […]